Bryan Mackey (1770–1847) was an English Anglican vicar and the first black Church of England clergyman.
Mackey was born in 1770 to William Mackey – an English Gentleman – and an unnamed woman from Jamaica. In 1780, by an act of the Jamaican Assembly, Mackey was granted exemption from inheritance restrictions normally placed on those of African or part-African descent.
He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was ordained as deacon in 1793 and was appointed curate at Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire the same year. He was ordained as a priest in 1794. Mackey became rector of Coates, Gloucestershire in 1799. He conducted a wedding in Milton Lilbourne in 1806, and his three children were baptised there, suggesting he held curateship at that parish.
He was appointed curate of Sapperton, Gloucestershire in 1813.
Mackey died aged 77 in 1847 in Southampton.
References
- ^ "short bio of Bryan Mackey first Black British Anglican clergyman". Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- Grace Owen. "From Grace Owen" (PDF). Gloucestershire County History Trust Newsletter. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- "Acts of Jamaican Assembly 1760-1810 extracted from material held in the Public Record Office". Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- "Parish records from Milton Lislebon" (PDF). p. 348. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
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